nothing wrong with them.brother has a stage 3 380bhp rwd saff built by steve scott 5 years ago.only thing to go wrong was a head gasket.on original gear box thats at least 10 years old.the reliability comes from how the car is built and kept.scoobys being better in the long run is rubbish.mate had two gearboxes go in 6 weeks through road use costing 800 a time,plus a clutch and a bottom end in the space of a year.plus when a scoob is ten years old it wont be worth 10k plus like escossies are today.